To what degree do the GOP understand that they have caused potential problems for the US for a couple of generations?
The EU shunning America will not end with Trump’s passing. The US has demonstrated that it doesn’t value either trust nor consistency.
But appointments can work if the system is respected by all. Elections just mean pure unadulterated politics.
My country (Australia) our Supreme Court is called the High Court. The national judicial body shortlists a selection of suitably qualified and respected candidates when there is a vacancy. The candidates owe no political affiliation to any party. The government selects a candidate, usually the recommended judge. There is rarely any controversy in the selection as the politicians, the judges, and the people respect the system.
Australia sometimes gets an upset challenge to a government decision, but everyone tends to blame a government for overreach rather than corruption on the part of the High Court.
This is all appointment with no elections involved. In the US you have elections for positions that we never have, and you introduce politics and dirty money where it’s not needed. If the system is fucked no amount of empty democracy is going to save it. We even have a appointed commission to draw independent electoral boundaries in this country. Gerrymandering isn’t a thing anymore, anywhere in the country. Politicians and parties get to make a submission on what the boundaries might look like, but anything dodgy gets thrown out. The people have confidence in the commission and no controversy.
I think that the recent case put to them that Trump has the power to sack formally independent institutional heads may be an answer. It certainly put Federal judges on notice. Not addressed directly, but once Trump sacks a Federal judge under that rulling the legal consequences for SCOTUS may be startling. He, or the next president may dump any or all of the Supremes that they don’t like?
Caveat: not a lawyer, or even close to being one. Just a long-time interested observer.
Difficult to argue against but impossible to actually change.
She endorsed him in her pants.
It’s like getting banned from smacking my own balls with a hammer.
Oh noes!
Not being anti-gay but the data plainly tells us that FF relationships break down faster than MF relationships.
The longest lasting marriages are MM.
Why is this? I have no idea as I’ve never studied the phenomena, what’s more I’m not qualified to do so, but it means something.
They’re French, they’re making a soufflé
True, but that is like saying you like typhoid a little more than cholera.
Have absolutely no interest in removing the scent of vagina.
Fancy joining the MAGA movement just as it enters the Epstein phase?
Where’s this “Land of the Free” that I keep hearing about?
That bastard sez a lot of things. That’s all he does.
Yeah, such a great plan. Hope that works out for ya next time round.
I hear what you are saying, but why is the legalisation so restrictive that the bureaucracy has the ability to do this? It’s unnecessary, but it’s also deliberate.
Change the party that institutionalizes this kind of cruality and the bureaucracy will change with it. How come we don’t attack the people who allow that kind of dehumanising behaviour?
Also, not every Civil Servant is like that, so drop the board brush.
Once again, they are paid to implement policy put in place by their political masters. They don’t any have room to maneuver.
Don’t like the policy, sure, go after the people who arranged it. It’s like blowing up at a checkout chick at Walmart because management stopped sticking your favourite buttplug.
I never understood the hate on the civil service.
Their job is to implement policy that they never themselves enacted and even their political masters point at them and say, “huh, what can ya do?”.
Well, it is a genius shop, or some shit…
Yeah, King went through a rough patch that only got worse before it got better.
You can’t make money from Europe if Europe has locked you out. It has already started…